Warm Weather Is Melting
Nation's Christmas Shopping

A Wall Street Journal News Roundup

Updated Dec. 14, 1998 12:01 a.m. ET

Global warming is threatening a new victim: the nation's retailers.

The extraordinarily warm early December is melting away sales of winter clothing -- one of the biggest engines of the crucial holiday retail season. Now retailers -- who saw a nice Thanksgiving weekend splurge -- say business is tailing off, with holiday sales running close to or...